Vascular & Smooth Muscle Physiology

22/12/2011 Craig 0 Comments

This themed meeting of the Physiological Society was held in the Surgeons Hall, Royal College of Surgeons of
Edinburgh (6th-8th Dec 2011). The three day event covered a range of topics within an obvious focus on Ca++ signalling and KV channels.

Nanospaces was a new topic for me and so the introductory lecture by Casey van Breemen was a welcome start.These nanospaces create microdomains in which the smallest of changes in ionic balance can result in profound changes in local concentration.These nanospaces were beautifully modelled by Nicola Farneli who also suggested that a 1 ion change in a nanospace can cause a 2uM change in concentration!